School: Batterstown
- Location:
- Batterstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Seosaimhín, Bean Uí Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 093
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- A poor tailor and a tinsmith were in company one evening when the sun was setting behind the hill of Dalystown. They heard music very far away. The music was so nice that they walked on to see where it was.
The moon was in the sky when they arrived at the hillock on which they saw a lot of little men and women who were dancing round the hillock. In the middle sat an old man taller than the rest, who wore a coloured coat and a beard that reached down to his waist(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Doyle
- Gender
- Male
